Wouter van Oortmerssen

Wouter van Oortmerssen, also known as Aardappel (Dutch for potato), is a Dutch computer programmer notable for his work in game programming as well as having designed several programming languages.[1] He has a Masters degree in computational linguistics from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD in computer science from the University of Southampton. Currently he is a professor for Software Development at the Guildhall of the Southern Methodist University.[2]

In the context of games, he has worked on Far Cry[2] and is the creator of the open source game engines Cube[2] and Cube 2.[3] Van Oortmerssen also created PanQuake[4] and Fisheye Quake[5] based on the Quake source code, and WadC,[6] a language for generating Doom levels.

Among his programming languages are Amiga E[7] and FALSE,[8] which contributed to enthusiasm for the esoteric programming language movement (inspiring the infamous brainfuck and Befunge languages).

References

  1. ^ Eugenia Loli-Queru (12 October 2001). "Interview: Wouter van Oortmerssen on SHEEP". osnews.com. OSNews. http://www.osnews.com/story/169. Retrieved 1 August 2010. 
  2. ^ a b c Guildhall. "Faculty". smu.edu. Southern Methodist University. http://guildhall.smu.edu/Faculty.15.0.html?&cHash=ca12487200&tx_guildhallbio_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=15. Retrieved 1 August 2010. 
  3. ^ "Cube 2: Sauerbraten". sauerbraten.org. http://sauerbraten.org/README.html. Retrieved 8 August 2010. 
  4. ^ Wouter van Oortmerssen. "PanQuake". strlen.com. http://strlen.com/gfxengine/panquake/. Retrieved 8 August 2010. 
  5. ^ Wouter van Oortmerssen. "Fisheye Quake". strlen.com. http://strlen.com/gfxengine/fisheyequake/. Retrieved 8 August 2010. 
  6. ^ Wouter van Oortmerssen. "WadC Editor". strlen.com. http://strlen.com/wadc-editor. Retrieved 8 August 2010. 
  7. ^ Simon Goodwin, Robert Bryant. "Amiga - So the World May Know". amiga.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/20050310015934/http://www.amiga.com/press/zine/11-1-00/sheep/. Retrieved 1 August 2010. 
  8. ^ Wouter van Oortmerssen. "False Language". strlen.com. http://strlen.com/false-language. Retrieved 8 August 2010. 

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